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Sport in Redbridge
Wheelchair Basketball Club
Wheelchair basketball is one of the
most popular Paralympic Sports, embracing a wide range of
disabilities including:
- paraplegics
- spina bifida
- amputees
- brittle bone
- cerebral palsy and
- multiple sclerosis.
Able bodies players are eligible to
play in domestic leagues too, so virtually everyone can play.
This autumn saw the launch of
the first Wheelchair Basketball Club in Redbridge, to find out more
about the weekly sessions, take a look at the
events diary.
Redbridge Ability Challenge
Wednesday 28 September 2012 will see local children compete in
the annual Redbridge Ability Challenge, designed to offer
competitive sporting opportunities to pupils with a disability or
special needs from any school in Redbridge, it includes a mixture
of non-scoring and scoring events
Paralympic Training Camps
Redbridge Sports & Leisure
Centre will provide training for Badminton, Judo and Wrestling
during the Olympic Games and for Goal ball during the Paralympic
Games after securing a grant of £6.4m from the Olympic Development
Authority to build a new badminton and netball centre.
Redbridge Cycling Centre will also be used as a London 2012
games time training venue. During the Olympics the Centre is
planned to be used by up to 150 different road cycling teams as a
base to train out on quieter roads in Essex and during the
Paralympics the athletes plan to train at the Centre.
For information about inclusive sports activities in Redbridge contact Disability and Inclusion
Officer.
Paralympic Games Torch Bearer
Nominations have now closed to be nominated to carry the flame
for the Paralympic Games in 2012.
Redbridge news
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